Comments on: Rocky Mountain News Staffers Start Net Venture

By: barbaraH

barbaraH — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:09:29 +0000

These guys can’t find another job out there? Well with all these great awards why not?
The RMN has been a one sided company all along, When they stood by and let there staff be kicked on national TV I lost all hope for them, what a lame company, I am not surprise they folded, no leadership big heads and amature photogs. go figure.

By: Jessica Bookstaff

Jessica Bookstaff — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:31:34 +0000

Dan may need to give us all some schooling on how to run a newspaper onine…at least a crash course to get us started. He understands the bridge rom old media to online. See Ron’s great article -http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2008/february.htm
So, when is the class sign-up???

By: Snoopy

Snoopy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:04:33 +0000

Man these people sound like dinosaurs, who is going to pay for access to a site that doesn’t even exist, an even worse idea than printing the newspaper!

By: Riq Ghafoor

Riq Ghafoor — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:58:26 +0000

Big tides are supposed to lift all boats so in of this this are there better prospects for city/geo names in extensions like .info and .us or does the story ends with names like Denver.com and Seattle.com?

By: Ron Jackson

Ron Jackson — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:34:34 +0000

To dominate a niche you don’t need to be known by thousands – you just need to be a professional who can cover that niche better than anyone else. There are many commercial niches where there is no professional coverage now. A professional reporter-photographer team could slay most operators in currently underserved niches. I personally wouldn’t use a blog format as a start up today as I think the format is overdone now – I think the online magazine format is more eye appealing so stands out from the crowd more, plus has the advantage of being a fornat traditional advertisers are already familiar with.

There are very few businesses that are profitable right away, so it is true that if they have no capital to live on while they build it up they would need to do it in their spare time while earning a paycheck somewhere else. It could wind up being their ticket to freedom but you are quite right that many just have no interest in being their own boss.